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Confederate Supporters Sue over Slavery and Segregation Exhibit at Stone Mountain
(atlanta.capitalbnews.org)
Most weekends, within the shadow of its controversial history, Stone Mountain Park is teeming with a diverse group of attendees. Located just east of Atlanta, Black women gather to power walk along the winding trails while others climb the jagged rocky path to the top of the Confederate memorial in the 3,200 acre park. Billed […]
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Scale alone makes this monument important. It should be preserved, even if we bury it in dirt for a couple centuries. Like the Bamiyan Buddhas, a hole gouged in the mountainside is a worse scar than a message that must recede into the past.
But if bigoted assholes want to whinge about a museum at the bottom where all the gift-shop merchandise reads "IT WAS ABOUT SLAVERY, STUPID," they be first in line to shovel that dirt.